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Office briefing

Suarez — Mayor

Tracked current office. Identifiers stay separate from display names.

Colombia · Suarez / Cauca · municipal · MayorCO-ALC-19780

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Expected ordinary election on the last Sunday of October; formal call and 2027 roster require refresh. CEDE/Registraduría ordinary returns V2. Shares exclude blank and invalid ballots. Changing coalition labels and current control are not harmonized. Repeats, annulments and opposition-seat acceptance require certification review.

1. What office, where, and when is the next election?

Geography
Suarez / Cauca
Next election
2027-10-31
Linked upcoming event
next-e10056079828d9d2363ba502
Registry qualification
Unknown

2. How certain is that date?

2027-10-31 is expected (not formally called). Day precision. A date without a formal call is not confirmed.

3. Who won earlier selected elections?

2023

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • POR EL SUAREZ QUE SOÑAMOS61.9%
  • INDEPENDIENTES35.1%
  • PARTIDO VERDE OXIGENO2.6%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI0.3%
  • FUERZA CIUDADANA LA FUERZA DEL CAMBIO0.1%
  • MOVIMIENTO POLITICO COLOMBIA HUMANA0.0%
Results for event-22a318b59e7680e1a4c9d0eb
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
POR EL SUAREZ QUE SOÑAMOS · Cesar Lizardo Ceron Galindo20231740colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20236,76561.9%UnknownRecorded
INDEPENDIENTES · Nasly Lucumi Diaz20190087colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20233,84235.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO VERDE OXIGENO · Henry Mosquera Sanchez19980003colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/20232812.6%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · John Jairo Osorio Bravo19910006colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023320.3%UnknownRecorded
FUERZA CIUDADANA LA FUERZA DEL CAMBIO · Carlos Andres Lucumi Balanta20150388colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/2023100.1%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO POLITICO COLOMBIA HUMANA · Juan Ibarra Gonzalez19690001colombia/Sdc3a3f1f89/202340%UnknownRecorded

2019

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE34.2%
  • COALICION ALCALDIA DE SUAREZ-CAU. MOVIMIENTO ESTAMOS UNIDOS POR SUAREZ32.1%
  • PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO29.2%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS4.5%
Results for event-61d0590b4739f324afe7a4f8
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO COLOMBIA RENACIENTE · Ronal Villegas Orlas20180046colombia/S67eb704c85/20193,31934.2%UnknownRecorded
COALICION ALCALDIA DE SUAREZ-CAU. MOVIMIENTO ESTAMOS UNIDOS POR SUAREZ · Cesar Lizardo Ceron Galindo20191292colombia/S67eb704c85/20193,11632.1%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO CAMBIO RADICAL COLOMBIANO · John Jairo Osorio Bravo20030001colombia/S67eb704c85/20192,84129.2%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Enrique Gutierrez Pineda20130002colombia/S67eb704c85/20194404.5%UnknownRecorded

2015

Ordinary · Legal certification not established · list votes

  • PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO32.0%
  • PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI23.7%
  • PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U23.0%
  • MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS21.2%
Results for event-8a50816f6ef1c3ef932fb51c
Label / candidateParty codeVotesShareSeatsStatus
PARTIDO LIBERAL COLOMBIANO · Hernando Ramirez Ramirez18480001colombia/S8164286948/20152,31332%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO ALIANZA SOCIAL INDEPENDIENTE - ASI · Cesar Lizardo Ceron Galindo19910006colombia/S8164286948/20151,71323.7%UnknownRecorded
PARTIDO SOCIAL DE UNIDAD NACIONAL - PARTIDO DE LA U · Henry Valencia Carabali20050002colombia/S8164286948/20151,66323%UnknownRecorded
MOVIMIENTO ALTERNATIVO INDIGENA Y SOCIAL - MAIS · Henry Torres Torres20130002colombia/S8164286948/20151,52821.2%UnknownRecorded

4. Competition and volatility

competition index

Provisional imported-series CI

12.510–100 historical closeness

Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Provisional imported-series comparison; actual-event review open

Method ci.weighted-gap.v1. Inputs: latest_gap=26.733126028900678, oldest_gap=8.313703755022864, previous_gap=2.089337175792508

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

33.77percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Ten exact standalone national-party labels. Mixed coalitions, unidentified CEDE codes and other lists stay Other. Changes in coalition participation are not resolved into constituent-party votes. Geographic and actual-event audits remain open. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Latest interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["Conservador","Liberal","La U","Cambio Radical","Centro Democratico","Alianza Verde","ASI","MAIS","Polo","AICO","Other"], interval=Latest interval, vectors=[[0,0,0,0,0,0,0.29266508139747577,0,0,0,99.70733491860251],[0,0,0,29.240428159736517,0,0,0,4.5286125977768625,0,0,66.23095924248662],[0,32.04932797561314,23.042815574338366,0,0,0,23.735624220590275,21.172232229458224,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

95.47percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Ten exact standalone national-party labels. Mixed coalitions, unidentified CEDE codes and other lists stay Other. Changes in coalition participation are not resolved into constituent-party votes. Geographic and actual-event audits remain open. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Previous interval

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["Conservador","Liberal","La U","Cambio Radical","Centro Democratico","Alianza Verde","ASI","MAIS","Polo","AICO","Other"], interval=Previous interval, vectors=[[0,0,0,0,0,0,0.29266508139747577,0,0,0,99.70733491860251],[0,0,0,29.240428159736517,0,0,0,4.5286125977768625,0,0,66.23095924248662],[0,32.04932797561314,23.042815574338366,0,0,0,23.735624220590275,21.172232229458224,0,0,0]]

pedersen volatility

Provisional volatility

64.62percentage points

Grouped Pedersen lower bound (percentage points). Ten exact standalone national-party labels. Mixed coalitions, unidentified CEDE codes and other lists stay Other. Changes in coalition participation are not resolved into constituent-party votes. Geographic and actual-event audits remain open. An interval is withheld if either election has no list mapped to an explicit named group. This is aggregate share change, not individual voter switching. Event review: Actual-event and/or comparability review incomplete

Comparison status: Both intervals mean

Method pedersen.grouped.v1. Inputs: groups=["Conservador","Liberal","La U","Cambio Radical","Centro Democratico","Alianza Verde","ASI","MAIS","Polo","AICO","Other"], interval=Both intervals mean, vectors=[[0,0,0,0,0,0,0.29266508139747577,0,0,0,99.70733491860251],[0,0,0,29.240428159736517,0,0,0,4.5286125977768625,0,0,66.23095924248662],[0,32.04932797561314,23.042815574338366,0,0,0,23.735624220590275,21.172232229458224,0,0,0]]

Source-reported control: Unverified. Current tenure requires separate dated evidence.

5. Officeholder evidence

Dated roster observations are not automatically current tenure. The source current-office flag means this office is tracked now, not that the last winner still holds it.

No officeholder observation supplied.

6. Polling context

No local poll supplied.

National context is listed on the polling page. It is not a local forecast.

7. Unresolved issues and sources

Expected ordinary election on the last Sunday of October; formal call and 2027 roster require refresh. CEDE/Registraduría ordinary returns V2. Shares exclude blank and invalid ballots. Changing coalition labels and current control are not harmonized. Repeats, annulments and opposition-seat acceptance require certification review. Six 2023 assemblies remain absent: Amazonas, Guainía, Huila, Risaralda, Vaupés and Vichada. Cali’s 37 JAL boards and dated membership rosters are registered; the national JAL register, three-cycle votes and replacement-event final returns remain incomplete. Twenty mixed-list-type histories, Bogotá and Cali 2015 partial counts and candidate/elected-flag inconsistencies require reconciliation. The national historical portal rejected this browser through security screening. Full legal seat allocation is separate from candidate flags and directory headcounts.

    Sources

    Cite this record

    Center for Digital Democracy. “Suarez — Mayor.” Subnational Election Observatory, releaselatin-america-fe5e91689def, snapshot 2026-09-13. /electiondatabase/offices/CO-ALC-19780. Sources: colombia--url-44e0af24e3fef22401f2d269, colombia--url-f8cbad13a2c7112410d7a492, colombia--url-142631271ac95a7106b17681, colombia--Sdc3a3f1f89, colombia--S67eb704c85, colombia--S8164286948.